Yet again, Brits are telling elites they're inflicting too much change too quickly

King's College London's latest research on migration tells us 86% of UK people now think there are tensions between migrants and people born here. In practice most Brits have been welcoming to many newcomers over recent years and have hired many of them to do work that needed doing. What angers people are illegal arrivals and advantages given by the state on arrival at the expense of settled taxpayers. It is not surprising there are current worries given the failure to keep out illegal young men chancing it on unlicenced boats across the Channel. Most UK citizens think it wrong that people should enter illegally and then be given free housing, healthcare and financial support when no-one consented to their arrival in the first place.

Some are housed in good hotels that until recently were places people aspired to go to for celebrations and big events. How come they are now for people who have broken the law to come here and are rewarded with priority? Why are our hotels not available for their proper uses? We have seen many protests in localities where people object strongly to this use of hotels. Driving rents up to put them in HMOs can also cause tensions with locals seeking affordable housing.

The news is currently led by stories about the early release of foreign criminals from jail who have committed sexual crimes which naturally causes concern, adding to domestic crime in a high-profile way.

All acknowledge that we have home-grown criminals but that is no reason to allow in some sexual predators, murderers, tax-evaders, illegal business organisers and drug dealers without making sufficient check. Where they are allowed in by mistake and prove to be criminal people want them sent back to where they came from promptly.

The King's survey reveals wider concerns about the pace of cultural change. With around half the country telling pollsters they would vote Reform or Conservative at the next election, the fact that 9 out of 10 Reform voters and 7 out of 10 Conservative voters think the speed of change too fast is a major worry.

It means many people do think a country has to evolve, with new people welcomed in numbers that local communities can accept and absorb. We want evolution not revolution, with attitudes towards religion, national identity and democracy accommodating other views at an acceptable pace.

Most conservatives want some change. Things can be made better. Progress in technology and living standards is welcome. Most conservatives accept we should grant asylum to our share of people fleeing torture and death elsewhere, but there are legal routes to do that.

The problem with very high levels of migration lies in making proper provision for the new people, and in reassuring the settled community that all will be well as they arrive. Inviting in too many leaves us short of homes.

It pushes up rents as the government contracts for large amounts of accommodation for new arrivals. Hotels are switched to hostels affecting the facilities of an area.

It adds to the need to put in new electricity and gas supplies, to enlarge water pipes and expand sewage works, to put in more rail and road capacity. The settled community is then told it needs to pay more for water and electricity, and to pay more tax to expand our infrastructure, partly owing to the pressure of numbers.

That can lead to resentments, as many people did not feel they ever voted for a policy of major population expansion from migration.

Cultural change has also been rapid over sexual and personal identity. I welcome more freedom for people to express themselves and enter adult relationships based on consent as they wish. As a recent court judgement has concluded that does not mean losing the ability to distinguish between a woman and a man or allowing men to use women-only spaces.

It is putting all these things together that has led to disaffection in the conservative half of the country. These worries spread across the right/left divide, with others sharing the feeling that change has been too rapid.

That does not mean trying to recreate 1950s Britain or reneging on the freedoms we have gained since. It does mean slowing the pace of these changes, and being more tolerant to those who are alarmed by some of them.